Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only that they are poor but also, even by honky standards, undeservedly so. What began a month ago as a walkout by city employees is now a black-and-white confrontation. Memphis garbage collectors, most of them making $1.80 an hour, went on strike for a 60?-an-hour minimum raise, recognition of their union and a dues checkoff by city hall. Nearly all of Memphis' 1,300 garbage men are black, only three of 13 councilmen are. Mayor Henry Loeb has spurned the strikers' demands. As the dispute escalated, labor solidarity has been replaced by a surge...
...earth is no stranger to disappearances of the magnetic field. Perhaps nine times in the past 4,000,000 years, geologic evidence shows, the field has mysteriously reversed. During these reversals the strength of the field gradually wanes, reaches a minimum, and then begins building up again in the opposite direction, resulting in a switch of the north and south magnetic poles. Exactly what will happen this time, McDonald and Gunst are not prepared to say. In the 700,000 years since the last reversal, most of the direct evidence of physical and biological changes that may have occurred...
...will be largely because the nation's most prestigious universities continue to support that special status. The ROTC units at most of the country's best liberal arts colleges are little more than tokens. Harvard's Army ROTC unit, for example, failed last year to produce even the minimum number of commissions normally required to remain in existence. The requirement, of course, was waived, because the prestige derived from a long-established unit at Harvard is at least as valuable to the Army as the small number of short-term officers which that unit produces. The services, in short...
...smoldered, the eleven-member* commission had a threefold mission: 1) to record what had actually happened, 2) to find out why it happened, and 3) to suggest a scheme for heading off further troubles. The first two tasks were performed with the help of 90 staff workers in a minimum of time and with a maximum of thoughtfulness and sensitivity. But for the third assignment, the commission, stunned by the gravity and magnitude of the problem, produced shotgun recommendations without regard for cost or national priority. Though many of the recommendations were urgently needed, the commission's apparent unconcern...
...WELFARE. There should be uniform national standards of assistance to en sure that each American family has an annual income at least as high as the poverty level of $3,335. The Federal Government should bear a minimum of 90% of all welfare costs. Families should receive assistance as soon as they move into a new area, without waiting to meet residence requirements. As a long-range goal, the Federal Government should "develop a national system of income supplementation...